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The Silver Pigs (1989) by Lindsey Davis
Season 3 Episode 1
Josh and Scott kick off a new series of crime story explorations with a trip to Lindsey Davis's Ancient Rome, guided by Imperial Informant, Marcus Didius Falco. "The Silver Pigs" is set in AD 70, dur…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Ranking Raymond Chandler
Season 2 Episode 11
For their series finale on the Philip Marlowe novels, Scott and Josh reflect on their reading of the canonical sweep and rank the stories and features of Raymond Chandler's enduring collection.
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
Playback (1958)
Season 2 Episode 10
Chandler's final complete Marlowe novel was written at a time of deteriorating health and tumultuous circumstances for the author. Not surprisingly, some of these conflicts from 1958 find their way i…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
The Long Goodbye (1953)
Season 2 Episode 9
1953 saw the publication of Raymond Chandler's sixth Philip Marlowe novel, "The Long Goodbye". Chandler himself regarded it as his best work and many fans agree. Nevertheless, behind the scenes it wa…
Published on 4 years, 9 months ago
The Confidential Agent (1939)
Season 2 Episode 8
Driven by amphetamine, Graham Greene knocked out this thriller in only 6 weeks of 1939 in a rented room of a Bloomsbury flat. He wrote fervently as premonitions of a second world war grew more tangib…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
The Little Sister (1949)
Season 2 Episode 7
After a five-year hiatus, Raymond Chandler returns to the world of Philip Marlowe with "The Little Sister". His small-town client brings big-city trouble as the investigation into her missing brother…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
The Lady In The Lake (1943)
Season 2 Episode 6
For his fourth novel, Raymond Chandler sends detective Philip Marlowe away from the steamy tumult of Los Angeles and up into the fresh mountain air in search of a client's missing wife. The investiga…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Season 2 Episode 5
Commenting on the gigantic success of his company, Walt Disney once famously said "...it was all started by a mouse". Years later, it would again be a mouse that helped to safeguard Disney's future, …
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Enola Holmes (2020)
Season 2 Episode 4
While it may snuff the hopes of Sherlockians in search of a faithful adaptation of Conan Doyle's detective, there's still a lot to enjoy about Netflix's "Enola Holmes". Scott and Josh are joined in t…
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago
The High Window (1942)
Season 2 Episode 3
Raymond Chandler's third novel offers readers a different look at detective Philip Marlowe than afforded in his first two outings while expanding on themes of spiritual decay and corruption. A missin…
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago